AMD Radeon 520 Mobile vs AMD Radeon 530 Mobile

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon 520 Mobile and AMD Radeon 530 Mobile videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

AMD Radeon 520 Mobile

AMD Radeon 530 Mobile

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 520 Mobile

Around 41% higher core clock speed: 1030 MHz vs 730 MHz
Around 11% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 1800 MHz

Core clock speed	1030 MHz vs 730 MHz
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz vs 1800 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 530 Mobile

Around 19% higher texture fill rate: 24.5 GTexel / s vs 20.6 GTexel / s
Around 20% higher pipelines: 384 vs 320
Around 19% better floating-point performance: 784.1 gflops vs 659.2 gflops

Texture fill rate	24.5 GTexel / s vs 20.6 GTexel / s
Pipelines	384 vs 320
Floating-point performance	784.1 gflops vs 659.2 gflops

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon 520 Mobile	AMD Radeon 530 Mobile
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	GCN 3.0
Code name	Exo	Topaz
Launch date	18 April 2017	18 April 2017
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1030 MHz	730 MHz
Floating-point performance	659.2 gflops	784.1 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	320	384
Texture fill rate	20.6 GTexel / s	24.5 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	50 Watt
Transistor count	1,040 million	3,100 million
Boost clock speed		1021 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x8
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	12.0 (12_0)
OpenGL	4.5	4.5
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	16 GB / s	14.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz	1800 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	DDR3